Blackswan’s OpenXDR vs. LogRhythm
Blackswan’s OpenXDR platform (Stellar Cyber) delivers critical advantages over the suite of LogRhythm products, such as physical and virtual sensors to collect telemetry across the entire IT and OT environments, embedded UEBA capabilities, and automated correlations. The platform’s single license for everything makes it a proven choice for enterprises of all sizes.
How Blackswan Beats LogRhythm
- Physical and Virtual Sensors – Stellar Cyber enables organizations to push their security capabilities to the edge of their networks, decreasing MTTD and MTTR via physical and virtual sensors to collect and process data wherever it
- Embedded UEBA Capabilities: Organizations get critical user and entity behavior visibility across their environment at no extra
- Automated Correlations – Using purpose-built deep learning (ML) models and curated correlation rules, Stellar Cyber automatically correlates related alerts and logs to generate investigation-ready incidents driving a significant increase in security analyst
- Single Licensing – The platform includes all features and functionality under a single license with no hidden fees or surprise upgrade-charges making budgeting easy for security decision-makers.
- Modern Detections – Stellar Cyber is committed to solving the alert fatigue problem by delivering automated correlations, purpose-built machine learning, and curated threat detection rules all in one
- All-In Partnership – Blackswan is committed to working with every customer to get the security outcomes they need from day one.
Comparison
| Positioning Point | Stellar Cyber | LogRhythm |
| Architecture | ||
| Multi-Level, Multi-Tenancy with RBAC | ✓ | X No multi-tenancy |
| Tenant Onboarding | ✓ Immediate, self-service | X Months before full deployment achieved |
| Sensors & NDR | ✓ NDR, IDS, Sandbox, DPI | ✓ NDR capabilities via acquisition |
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Automated Response |
✓ Bi-directional integrations with SOAR functionality | ✓ Included |
| Integration Suite | ✓ Hundreds of integrations | ✓ Hundreds of integrations |
| API | ✓ Fully featured public API | ✓ |
| Detections & Security | ||
| Modern Slate of Detection Capabilities | ✓ ML and Rule based detections | ✓ Some ML but heavily reliant on human created correlation rules |
| Automated Correlation | ✓ | ✓ |
|
Analyst Experience |
✓ Case Management, Reporting, Threat Hunting | ✓ |
| Partnership | ||
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Single License |
✓ NDR, Open XDR, NG-SIEM, TIP, UEBA,
SOAR under single license |
X Some capabilities, such as UEBA, requires add-in licenses |
| Feature Development | ✓ Highly responsive, included in license | X Slower moving development |
|
Technical Enablement |
✓ 4 week enablement at NO cost to expedite deployment | X Deployment and training not included |
| Customer Support | ✓ Global, in house team, strict SLAs | ✓ |
| Sales Enablement | ✓ Dedicated program for MSSPs | ✓ |
Challenges
- No multi-tenancy
- No modern detection techniques, customers complain of manual analysis and painful maintenance of rules
- Cloud is new and lacking capabilities, in some cases, with different consoles
- Lack of partnership and good support
- Slow innovation
The Blackswan and Stellar Advantage
- Native NDR & Sensors – Stellar Cyber enables organizations to push their security capabilities to the edge of their networks, decreasing MTTD and MTTR via physical and virtual sensors and its native NDR
- Multi-Tier Architecture – For Enterprises with segmented environments, the Stellar Cyber architecture ensures individual customers/entity data
- Automated Correlation – Using purpose-built deep learning (ML) models and curated correlation rules, Stellar Cyber automatically correlates related alerts and logs to generate investigation-ready incidents driving a significant increase in security analyst
- Simple No Surprises Licensing – Stellar Cyber sells all features and functionality under a single license with no hidden fees or surprise upgrade charges making budgeting easy for security decision-makers.
- All-In Partnership – Blackswan is committed to working with every customer to get the security outcomes they need throughout the relationship.
- Rapid Deployment Capabilities – Blackswan can deploy the Stellar Cyber platform in as quickly as one day. If your technology teams are available to support the deployment of on-premise virtual machines, firewall changes, and API authentications – Blackswan could be monitoring and protecting your environment before the end of day one.